From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, michael.cadilhac@lrde.org, rms@gnu.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:59:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pspn9kc0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc339e4a0510292130l6f4f8c9al@mail.gmail.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:30:29 +0900")
Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com> writes:
>> I didn't implement Miles' suggestion; it just doesn't seem necessary
>> (unless I'm missing something.)
>
> The point is that are various simple rules and guidelines that apply
> to _every_ customization file, if we allow them to go in either ~ or
> in ~/.emacs.d, and it's silly to duplicate the code for each
> customization file.
>
> Centralizing the policy with a function also allows later changes or
> enhancement to be done more easily and cleanly.
OK, now I see.
It may or may not make sense to use such a function for the init file
(though I agree that it's useful for elsewhere in Emacs.) The
`command-line' has some strange magic going on in it: instead of
checking whether the file exists and is readable, it sets
`user-init-file' to t, and tries to load the filename
(`user-init-file-1'):
;; This tells `load' to store the file name found
;; into user-init-file.
(setq user-init-file t)
(load user-init-file-1 t t)
If the `load' function succeeds, it automagically binds
`user-init-file' to the loaded filename. I don't know why this was
written this way, but maybe there is a reason?
Also, if you want to use this function for the init file, you would
have to account for the "_emacs" dotfile name used on MS-DOS and
MS-Windows. In particular, MS-Windows uses "~/.emacs" by default, but
if that is not available it accepts "~/_emacs" as the dotfile.
Another note: it seems to me that most libraries that use ".emacs.d"
look for it in "~". Would it make sense to extend the
`init-file-user' variable so that the directory goes into
(concat "~" init-file-user "/.emacs.d")
instead? Or should `init-file-user' continue to apply to init files
only?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-30 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-24 15:58 Use .emacs.d in savehist.el Stefan Monnier
2005-10-24 21:22 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-25 20:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-25 9:30 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2005-10-25 14:30 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-25 14:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-25 19:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <87oe5e977f.fsf@mahaena.lrde>
2005-10-25 9:59 ` Michael Cadilhac
2005-10-25 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-26 16:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-26 23:28 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-27 3:58 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-27 16:53 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-10-28 16:19 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-28 20:16 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-29 5:12 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-29 17:31 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-30 0:03 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-29 3:51 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-29 20:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-30 4:00 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-30 4:30 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-30 13:59 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2005-10-31 1:14 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-31 2:29 ` Chong Yidong
2005-11-01 2:14 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-01 3:43 ` Chong Yidong
2005-11-01 5:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-01 12:54 ` Chong Yidong
2005-11-02 10:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-02 15:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-02 10:26 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-02 10:26 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-27 9:16 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-30 4:07 ` Chong Yidong
2005-10-25 15:58 ` Richard M. Stallman
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